At long last, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female justice and a legendary advocate for women's rights, is getting her own movie - and what's more, Oscar winner Natalie Portman has signed on to play her. On the Basis of Sex, which The Diary of a Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller is angling to come aboard, will follow Ginsburg throughout her illustrious career, as she battled for equal rights and rose through the ranks of the American justice system.
Ex Machina finally landed the ferociously talented Alicia Vikander a well-deserved spot on the New A-List, but the actress isn't resting on her laurels. With six films opening in the next nine months, we're going to be seeing a lot of Vikander on the big screen, and she just secured another buzzy role - in James Ponsoldt's adaptation of The Circle.
After graduating from Downton Abbey to Disney's lavish, lovely Cinderella adaptation, Lily James has secured another lead role that promises to send her stock soaring ever higher. Just days after climbing aboard Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, the actress has signed on for The Kaiser's Last Kiss opposite Christopher Plummer.
None of the major networks had a particularly fantastic 2014-15 season, but outside of Empire, Fox perhaps had one of the worst. Midseason entry Weird Loners just became the latest Fox series to receive a pink slip, joining Mulaney, Red Band Society, Backstrom, Gracepoint, Hieroglyph, The Following and The Mindy Project in the overflowing cancellation graveyard.
Whenever Pixar announced sequels like Cars 2, Monsters University and the upcoming Finding Dory, the constant refrain from fans was, "But what about The Incredibles 2?" Last month, director Brad Bird sent the Internet into a mild tizzy by announcing that he was, indeed, starting to write the sequel to the 2004 Oscar-winning superhero pic. Now, on the eve of releasing his Disney blockbuster Tomorrowland, Bird has confirmed that The Incredibles 2 will be his next movie.
Two hotly anticipated dramas turned out to be one-and-dones this season for CBS, with word that the network has pulled the plug on Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad follow-up Battle Creek and The Vampire Diaries super-producer Kevin Williamson's dark procedural Stalker. Freshman comedy The McCarthys, which had already been mourned by viewers, is also officially dead.
After a disastrous 2014-15 season that ended in every drama outside of The Mysteries of Laura getting the ax, NBC execs are crossing their fingers that drama pilots The Player and Game of Silence will have better luck. Both have been ordered to series, joining previously greenlit Blindspot, Chicago Med and Heartbreaker.
What's the State of Affairs, you ask? In a word: awful. The Katherine Heigl-led political drama, touted as the actress' big return to the small screen, has been unceremoniously dumped after one season, and it's not the only one. DC Comics take Constantine, rom-com Marry Me and Ellen DeGeneres-produced One Big Happy have all been canceled, while sophomore entry About a Boy will also not be returning. There's better news for Debra Messing vehicle The Mysteries of Laura and relationship comedy Undateable, which have been saved, the latter for an all-live third season.
Farewell, Kevin Bacon - after three seasons, the actor's grisly serial killer thriller The Following has been sent to the TV graveyard. Joining it is freshman cop procedural Backstrom, a middling performer for the network, but what's more surprising is that Fox execs are already putting shovel to dirt in anticipation of a major death in the family: American Idol has been renewed for a fifteenth and final season.
As expected, Fox has handed out series orders to its two remaining drama pilots: Minority Report, a continuation of the 2002 sci-fi thriller, and DC Comics adaptation Lucifer.
